Timeline

Here you can discover all the main events of the Guide Me Right adventure!

THE WINNERS OF THE STARTUP WEEKEND

First public presentation of the Guide Me Right project at the Startup Weekends organized by Tiscali. Luca decided to take part in the event with Pietro, his friend and colleague, in order to test his romantic idea of business. Just one-minute speech to convince the panel to be selected for the competition but it was fun, it was crazy, it was a success from the beginning. A makeshift team (where we met Andrea, a developer with an entrepreneurial soul) and three days of non-stop work concluded with an exciting victory. It was the opportunity we were waiting for and we grabbed this chance!

BIRTH OF THE GUIDE ME RIGHT SRL

In January 2014, after a few weeks of working together, Luca, Pietro and Andrea officially started their start-up adventure and founded the Guide Me Right SRL: one of the first innovative Italian start-ups that aims to create the first ‘made in Italy’ marketplace of P2P local experiences, but with international ambition. Some experts discouraged us to develop a sharing economy marketplace in Italy, but we were full of enthusiasm. This was the formal beginning of this adventure!

January 2014

THE WINNERS OF THE STARTUP VOUCHER PROGRAM

Well, the main ingredients for a start-up are bread and enthusiasm, but a financial support is never refuse! Three months after the birth of the company, we received the first good news: we were selected for the Startup Voucher program by Sardegna Ricerche. This was our second victory, but the first that put an economic resource at our disposal to invest in the project (50,000 €). Thanks to the Startup Voucher, we were able to speed up with the development of the marketplace and community and to employ Mirko, the first member of the Guide Me Right Staff, and Federica our first non-sardinian collaborator.

March 2014

THE 1st GUIDE ME RIGHT VERSION GETS ONLINE FOR A PRIVATE BETA TEST

After hard work months of development, the first version of Guide Me Right gets online for a private test in Sardinia. Now, thinking back on it make us realize how far the project was from the perfection, but work on it, notice and receive enthusiasm from people has helped us to keep on.

October 2014

THE WINNERS of "URBAN LIFE & MOBILITY" AWARD PROMOTED BY EIT ICT LABS

In London, on the thirtieth floor of a building in King's Cross, we presented the Guide Me Right project along with the 10 finalists of the "Urban Life & Mobility" award. It was promoted by the EIT ICT Labs, an European organization which supports promising startups around Europe. "There is not a smart city without smart cityzens" was our successful approach and “the winner is Guide Me Right!”. This was our first validation outside of Italy, we won 40,000 € and we came back home with many contacts to help us in the development of the project. It was a beautiful moment.

GUIDE ME RIGHT WAS SELECTED FOR THE ACCELERATION FIWARE PROGRAM BY FI-C3

We had recently found the first support abroad by winning the prize of EIT ICT Labs. A few weeks later, we came back to the Tiscali Open Campus (our coworking place) where we understood that we had to work much more than before because we grabbed a new opportunity. We was selected for the FIWARE acceleration program by FI-C3: € 130,000 to develop the project by inserting the Enablers Fiware, developed to facilitate the use of OPEN data and technology across Europe.

December 2014

THE 1ST VERSION OF GUIDE ME RIGHT GETS ONLINE

The awards allowed us to enlarge our team and thanks to a bit of perspicacity a lot of luck we had involved the right people. Chiara is today the referent for all the community, Silvia communicates Guide Me Right online. Alessio, Nicola and Riccardo has joined the app developer team in order to improve the web portal. Augusto helps all of us with his professional work experience. And here we are, ready to publically launch the Guide Me Right website and the app in a slowly but surely way.

January 2015

GUIDE ME RIGHT WAS SELECTED FOR THE IMPACT SCALING PROGRAM BY IMPACT HUB

Guide Me Right is an ambitious project. Firstly, we want to collect all the social and cultural experiences and offer them to travelers visiting Italy, secondly we want to replicate it throughout Europe. Impact Hub has appreciated the validity and ambition of the project and selected Guide Me Right for the Impact Scaling program which aims at supporting the growth of the start-up in Europe thanks to the network of Impact Hub social incubators.

June 2015

GUIDE ME RIGHT HAS CONQUERED ITALY

Suddenly the Guide Me Right Community reaches all Italy. 10,000 curious and enthusiasts travelers have already embraced the values of the project and joined our community. 1500 experiences are now offered by more than 550 Local Friend spread out in more than 400 cities across Italy. We are growing and the project is becoming a reality. Thanks to all members of our community, we’ll walk this way! What are you waiting for? Join us and live your first local experience local, you will not regret!